Introduction to Git for the Perl Hacker

Perl has embraced git in a big way, but it is not a very easy system to learn from scratch. Even tutorials that are available don’t really talk about how to exploit git best for Perl coders. As a result, most people need some help figuring out how to accomplish goal X, Y, or Z when they need to use git to make meaningful contributions to Git Hub hosted projects.

So this talk is designed to give beginners (and people a little bit more advanced) the foundation they need to feel confident creating and contributing to git hosted projects.

Some of the topics that will be covered include:

git nomenclature

creating a repo

basic workflow (add, edit, commit, push)

creating topic branches (why and how)

merging topic branches

tagging

starting and/or contributing to Git Hub hosted projects

Franck Cuny’s awesome Perl <=> Git Hub survey project

Mark Allen

Mark Allen

Mark Allen has over 10 years of experience as a software developer, system administrator and security architect.
He has given presentations to hundreds of peer developers at his $dayjob and at venues like OSCON, Frozen Perl workshop, YAPC::NA, Pittsburgh Perl workshop and others.

Comments

Mary Henze

07/20/2012 5:13pm PDT

Immediately useful information, enthusiastically delivered. Clearly has a passion for the topic and a genuine interest in sharing. Well organized and clear slides but may want to trim content and deliver it more slowly.